Quotes by Future If our economies are to flourish, if global poverty is to be banished, and if the wellbeing of the world's people enhanced - not just in this generation but in succeeding generations - we must make sure we take care of the natural environment and resources on which our economic activity depends. Gordon Brown futurevisionpeople If we are worried about the future, then we must look today at the upbringing of children. Gordon B. Hinckley futureresponsibilitychildren Perhaps one of the most powerful keys to determining our experience of the months ahead comes from a shift in thinking that invites us beyond asking, 'What can I get from the world that exists,' to asking, 'What can I offer to the world that is awakening?' The way we answer this question as individuals becomes our collective answer to what comes next. Gregg Braden futurepowerfulthinking Sustainable development is development that meets the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs. Gro Harlem Brundtland futuregenerationsneeds We are working towards a shared vision of the future for health among all the world's people. A vision future in which we develop new ways of working together at global and national level. A vision which has poor people and poor communities at its centre. And a vision which focuses action on the causes and consequences of the health conditions that create and perpetuate poverty. Gro Harlem Brundtland futureteamworkpeople A safe and nutritionally adequate diet is a basic individual right and an essential condition for sustainable development, especially in developing countries. Gro Harlem Brundtland futurevisioncountry We already have the statistics for the future: the growth percentages of pollution, overpopulation, desertification. The future is already in place. Gunter Grass environmental-pollutionfuturegrowth No parents will in that future time have the right to burden society with a malformed or mentally incompetent child. H. Bentley Glass futuresciencechildren I'm a lousy predictor of the future. Guy Kawasaki future Soon we will be strangers. No, we can never be that. Hurting someone is an act of reluctant intimacy. We will be dangerous acquaintances with a history. Hanif Kureishi futurehurthistory Promises are the uniquely human way of ordering the future, making it predictable and reliable to the extent that this is humanly possible. Hannah Arendt keeping-promisesfuturecommitment It is possible to believe that all the past is but the beginning of a beginning, and that all that is and has been is but the twilight of the dawn. It is possible to believe that all the human mind has ever accomplished is but the dream before the awakening. H. G. Wells futuredreambelieve Too many people live too much in the past. The past must be a springboard, not a sofa. Harold MacMillan futurepeoplepast Co-operating critics comb the studios like big-league scouts, prepared to spot the art of the future and to take lead in establishing reputations. Art historians stand by ready with cameras and notebooks to make sure every novel detail is safe for the record. The tradition of the new has reduced all other traditions to triviality. Harold Rosenberg futurenotebookart You had better live your best and act your best and think your best today; for today is the sure preparation for tomorrow and all the other tomorrows that follow. Harriet Martineau law-of-attractionfuturethinking The past, the present and the future are really one: they are today. Harriet Beecher Stowe futurerealitypast No one can be certain where a nation which spans two continents, whose history begins in the faint traces of early civilization, a nation now struggling to find a new and valid philosophy of existence, will be propelled by the transcendental forces of the nuclear age. Harrison Salisbury futurestrugglephilosophy All of us should be involved in our own futures to create a world that our children will want to live in. Harry Chapin futurechildrenworld When we protect the places where the processes of life can flourish, we strengthen not only the future of medicine, agriculture and industry, but also the essential conditions for peace and prosperity. Harrison Ford futuremedicinestrength FIGHT FOR THE EARTH: The earth can't speak for itself, it will just slowly die if we don't fight for it. Hazel Hawke futurefightingearth«1314151617181920212223»
